"While nothing is a guarantee against the proposed draconian laws, the PMAV is certified and provides some protection for landowners against any future mapping changes.

"Considering the legislation is about appeasing wealthy green activists who live in their inner-city concrete jungles I will not be surprised if the legislation will be backdated to when it was introduced into the Parliament.”

"The new laws are expected to include the regulation of high value regrowth and will revisit the Labor Party's relentless campaign against landholders using questionable vegetation clearing rates which make no mention of re-growth and thickening, or acknowledging that farmers are already unable to clear remnant vegetation.

"They will make it harder for farmers to grow their businesses, restrict supply, stifle regional development, accelerate the drift of young people to the cities and stagnate local jobs.

"The government has no intention of allow farmers to sustainably manage their land despite them being true environmentalists and responsible custodians of the land,” he said.